Joan Didion Quotes

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

Jenny Zhang

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You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

Max Greenfield

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Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

Steve Scalise

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If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Trey Gowdy

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I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

Tom Jones

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At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

Juan Manuel Marquez

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The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

Dick Powell

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I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.

Dexter Fletcher

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Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

Drew Barrymore

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If you want to learn about the history of a people, eat their food and drink their beverages.

Clemantine Wamariya

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I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Bobby Sherman

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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

Ashwin Sanghi

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